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Summary: The Preservation Of Little League Baseball

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I decided to work with the material "goals" Remember America 's entertainment law, "The preservation of Little League baseball players in poverty" by Lindsay Gibbs. . Since the beginning because I got a fan in the same group, which is believed and overpaid athletes, but Lindsay Gibbs focused on baseball players in the minor leagues and they had the requirements of the Federal minimum wage and overtime. According Deadspin 's, "and since 1976, rose MLB salaries of 2500 percent, while league salaries minor may only went up to 70 percent. Players in low-ball price starts at $ 1,100 per month, while the players AAA earn $ 2,150 per month." Players in minor league five months working in the hunt year after major league dreams, and Obad very few

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